Skitch beta 8 now available

If you follow me on Twitter or read this blog enough, you probably already know that I’m completely in love with Skitch. It’s by far the most common tool that I use for my everyday work — taking screenshots, making annotations, resizing images, etc.

Skitch beta 8 was just released a couple days ago with a slew of new and improved features.

New

Added BMP support

Added GIF support

Port number support added for SFTP/FTP/WebDAV

File size is now displayed in bottom left hand corner

“Background Color to Transparent” added to Skitch Toolbox menu

Settings tab re-organized into subsections

Minimize button is now available when in ‘flipped’ mode

Improved

Leopard’s “Spaces” interaction improved

Camera snap now works on Unibody MacBooks

Reduced CPU usage with iLife integration

Reduced CPU usage when Skitch is hidden

Increased stability with iLife integration

Vector images (PDF and EPS) now display at original ‘physical size’ when opened in Skitch

File type in Skitch.app changes when “Skitch it!” images are opened from Skitch.com

“mySkitch” account names renamed to “Skitch”

Pressing Esc just after a snap no longer causes a crash

Camera snap now stops counting if operation is cancelled

“Add Shadow to Image” no longer resets image to original size if image has been resized

I can’t wait to see what else comes to this amazing product — and when they’ll finally strike the “beta” and go into a general release. Feel free to discuss with the lovely co-founders Cris Pearson a.k.a. @atariboy and Keith Lang a.k.a. @songcarver.